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m-hodgestoday at 2:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

Wake up babe, new Therac-25 just dropped.


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Kiboneutoday at 2:42 PM

It’s funny because the Therac-25 failures led the FDA to care about software defects. Before the Therac-25 incidents, software was considered a black box component.

History rhymes doesn’t it?

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blibbletoday at 5:22 PM

for a computer science degree in the UK to be accredited, the chartered institute mandated an ethics course

therac-25 was in there

and now everyone's shoving as much generative excrement as possibly into everything as quickly as possible

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